Volume 24, Number 1
Feature 1: “‘we were two ends of one taut rope’: Audre Lorde and Black-Indigenous Relations in the Eurasian Borderlands” by Tatsiana Shchurko
Read the booklet here: https://publuu.com/flip-book/361412/825142
In “‘we were two ends of one taut rope’: Audre Lorde and Black-Indigenous Relations in the Eurasian Borderlands,” author Tatsiana Shchurko examines Audre Lorde’s trip to the Soviet Union in 1976, and the relationships she forged with local Indigenous communities there. Shchurko examines these relationships and the knowledge production that can be forged between two Indigenous communists against the backdrop of transnational politics. This booklet, created in collaboration with many scholars to reimagine the legacies of feminist internationalism in Soviet Eurasia, continues to discuss how Black feminism has become transnational, and the forms of knowledge that emerge at the intersection of black feminist knowledge in Soviet and post-Soviet Eurasia.
Feature 2: “Storytelling from the Heart: A Decolonial Feminist Humanism” by Ashjan Ajour
In “Storytelling from the Heart: A Decolonial Feminist Humanism,” author Ashjan Ajour crystallizes her lived experience as a Palestinian researcher studying Palestine, as part of a larger Palestinian suffering at the hands of the Israeli occupation. She describes in depth the process of interviewing the Palestinian hunger strikers, and her search for the ‘language of the heart,’ integrating her positionality as a researcher immersed in the colonized space, as well as a Palestinian shaped by the broader colonial oppression of the Israeli apparatus. She centers empathy in knowledge production, and her methodologies are shaped by her interactions with and ethnography about Palestinian hunger strikers. As a researcher embedded in the institutions that create the lived conditions of participants of her research, she centers reflexivity in her methodological approach, as well as her own political, emotional, and intellectual investment in the lives of her research participants. This podcast weaves stories about the Palestinian hunger strikers she met, and the subjectivity of their being as shaped by resistance.